March 29, 2024

Tigerhawk softball splits two with HLV

VICTOR — The Colfax-Mingo softball team cranked out 23 hits and nine extra-base hits in a doubleheader against HLV on Wednesday.

That still wasn’t enough to sweep two games from the Tigerhawks’ new South Iowa Cedar League rivals.

HLV scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to walk-off with a 6-5 win in the opener before Colfax-Mingo blasted three homers and collected 13 hits in an 8-6 victory in the nightcap.

Both teams had 10 hits in the opener.

HLV led 1-0 after one inning and 3-2 after five innings. Colfax-Mingo rallied with a pair of runs in the sixth and a final run in the seventh, but the Warriors plated three game-winning runs in their final at-bat to claim the win.

Rhiannon Haley and Amy Russell had four of the Tigerhawks’ 10 hits.

Haley homered and finished with three RBIs, while Russell, Alivia Haley and Braedynn Rawlins each had doubles. Russell scored twice.

Colbee Cunningham started in the circle and three runs — one earned — in 4 1/3 innings. Russell tossed 1 2/3 innings and surrendered the tying runs in the seventh.

Ries Wilson came on in relief in the seventh inning and allowed an unearned run that proved to the be difference.

Colfax-Mingo scored three runs in the first inning of the second game, but HLV used two homers to plate six runs in the first two innings.

Russell homered in the third inning to draw the Tigerhawks to within two.

Alivia Haley hit a solo home run with two outs in the fourth to make it 6-5, and Rhiannon Haley blasted a two-run shot two batters later to give the Tigerhawks the lead for good.

Cunningham entered the circle in relief of Wilson in the second inning and went the rest of the way to earn the win.

Cunningham pitched six innings, allowed four hits and surrendered zero earned runs in improving to 2-0 on the season.

Alivia Haley went 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs and two RBIs.

Russell added two hits, three runs and an RBI, and Rhiannon Haley had one hit, one run, one walk and two RBIs.

Wilson was 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored, and Cunningham also had two hits.

The Tigerhawks (2-1 overall, 2-1 in SICL play) play at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Grand View Christian.